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To assert or affirm with confidence; declare in a positive or peremptory manner

Aver

To charge, bind, or command seriously and humorlessly, often under oath or the threat of a penality
To entreat or request seriously, sincerely or formally

Adjure

A person who amuses others by tricks, jokes, odd gestures and postures, etc.
A person given to coarse or undignified joking

Buffoon

Expert or nimble in the use of the hands or body
Cleverly skillful, resourceful, or ingenious

Coerce

Subject to, led by, or indicative of caprice or whim;

capricious

A funeral sog or tune, or one expressing mourning in commemoration of the dead
Any composition resembling such a song or tune in character, as a poem of lament for the dead or solemn, mournful music
A mournful sound resembling a dirge

dirge

Having knowledge, taking notice of fact; aware (followed by “of”) he was cognizant of the difficulty

cognizant

Spacious and convenient, roomy
Ample or adequate for a particular purpose

Commodious

A conversational exchange; dialogue
A conference

Colloquy

Devoid of freshness or originality; hackneyed; trite a banal and sophomoric treatment of courage on the frontier

Banal

To caution, advice, or counsel against something
To reprove or scold, esp. in a mild and good-willed manner
To urge to a duty; remind

Admonish

Light, airy, or tenuous an ethereal world created through the poetic imagination
Extremely delicate or refined ethereal beauty
Heavenly or celestial gone to his ethereal home
Of or pertaining to the upper regions of space

Ethereal

Not meant to be taken seriously or literally
Amusing; humorous
Lacking serious intent; concerned with something nonessential, amusing, or frivolous

Facetious

To consult together; compare opinions; carry on a discussion or deliberation
To bestow upon as a gift, favor, honor, etc

Confer

Happening every two years
Lasting or enduring for two years
Any event occurring once in two years

Biennial

The relative disposition or arrangement of the parts or elements of a thing
External form, as resulting from this; conformation
The relative position or aspect of heavenly bodies; a group of stars

Configuration

Of or like a corpse
Pale; ghastly
Haggard and thin

Cadaverous

Large in quantity or number; abundant; plentiful
Having or yielding an abundant supply
Exhibiting abundance or fullness

To skip about, as in dancing or playing; frolic
A skipping or frisking about; frolic

Gambol

Desire to do good to others; goodwill; charitableness
An act of kindness; a charitable gift

Benevolence

Closely or significantly related; relevant; pertinent

Germane

To attract and hold the attention or interest of, as by beauty or excellence
Enchant

Captivate

To soften in feeling or temper, pacify
To mitigate or reduce

Mollify

Open to discussion, debatable, of little or no practical value
To introduce for discussion; to remove the practical significance of, to make only theoretical
An argument or discussion, an assembly of people in early England exercising certain powers

Moot

Marked or diversified with spots or blotches of a different color or shade

Mottled

The lowest point; point of greatest adversity or despair

Nadir

Hazy, vague, indistinct, or confused
Cloudy or cloudlike
Of or resembling a nebula or nebulae

Nebulous

Extremely wicked or villainous; utterly harmful

Nefarious

Something that a person cannot conquer, achieve, etc
An opponent or rival whom a person cannot best or overcome
The goddess of divine retribution
An agent or act of retribution or punishment

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